Quotes About Ethics

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs -- a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days.

immorality, materialism, and godlessness.

Life is indeed precious and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm that fact.

Virtue, I fear, has, in a great degree, taken its departure from our Land, and the want of disposition to do justice is the source of the national embarrassments," he concluded.5

What you have with Barack Obama is a lack of character.

What is morally wrong can never be politically right.—ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The only propaganda which will ever tend to weaken itself as the world becomes more sophisticated and intelligent, is propaganda that is untrue or unsocial.

It is the purpose of this book to explain the structure of the mechanism which controls the public mind, and to tell how it is manipulated by the special pleader who seeks to create public acceptance for a particular idea or commodity. It will attempt at the same time to find the due place in the modern democratic scheme for this new propaganda and to suggest its gradually evolving code of ethics and practice.

no matter how objectionable the character of a paper may be, it is always a trifle better than the patrons on whom it relies for its support.

There is a thin line between convincing people of the merits of a case and suggesting they are moral outcasts if they fail to see it.

Mitt Romney

M + D = C, Monopoly plus Discretion equals Corruption

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.

even much richer, than others. I object to gain of wealth through political connections rather than earning it by merit. If a basketball franchise pays my neighbor Kobe Bryant $20 million a year because it takes that much to get him, fine. But if hedge fund managers bribe politicians to put a clause in the laws cutting the tax rate on much of their income to a fraction of the percentage the average worker pays, I object.

when the interests of the salesmen and promoters differ from those of the client, the client had better look out for himself. This

The list of issues goes on, the point being that hedge fund investors don't have much protection and that the most important single thing to check before investing is the honesty, ethics, and character of the operators.

Nassim Taleb asked why, after a driver crashes his school bus, killing and injuring his passengers, he should be put in charge of another bus and asked to set up new safety rules.

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

Destroying forest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

let's also promote the humanities, that which makes us human, and not use science to mess around with the wellspring of this, the absolute and unique potential of the human future.

innate censors and motivators exist in the brain that deeply and unconsciously affect our ethical premises; from these roots, morality evolved as instinct. If that perception is correct, science may soon be in a position to investigate the very origin and meaning of human values, from which all ethical pronouncements and much of political practice flow.